How much did UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

summer youthmedicalhopecounselingallocationcollectiveearly learning

2020

medicalhopecounselingallocationcollectiveearly learningpoverty

2021

impact

2022

increasingpipelineminority cliniciansscholarshipslevel launchwraparoundlive

2023

lanclevel launchscholarshipsaffordableemergencycarewomen

2025

food sheltersyejoint foodsummer hungerjoint summerhunger foodinclusive

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $7k
$10k–50k21 grants · $415k
$50k–250k5 grants · $285k
$250k+2 grants · $2.9M

$18,500

Median grant

States reached

$7.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH$1,488,869
DONOR DESIGNATED PLEDGES$1,452,730
LOFT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP$60,000
ASSETS$60,000
COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP$58,000
TENFOLD$56,525
LANCASTER COUNTY HOUSING & REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITIES$50,000
LET'S GO 1-2-3$41,891
ECHOS$41,750
COLUMBIA DREAM CENTER$40,750
LODGE LIFE SERVICES$34,725
THE FACTORY MINISTRIES$31,952
GOODWILL KEYSTONE AREA$20,000
BRIGHTSIDE OPPORTUNITIES CENTER$20,000
CROSSNET$18,500

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$20M · 37 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$20M

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+75%

Still filing today

70%

71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

HealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

NF
NURSE FAMILY PARTNERSHIP
3× · 2021–2023 · $4.0M · revenue +11%
LG
LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH
5× · 2018–2022 · $1.2M · revenue +37%
LC
LITERACY COUNCIL OF LANCASTER-LEBANON INC
3× · 2018–2020 · $756k · revenue +73% · 41% of their budget

Funded once

LC
LANCO CARES RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS (INCLUDING 25 GRANTEES OVER 5000)
one grant, 2021 · $247k
LC
LANCO CARES RAPID RESPONSE GRANTS
one grant, 2020 · $239k
UE
UW EMERGENCY FUNDING (INCLUDING 4 GRANTEES OVER 5000)
one grant, 2021 · $183k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Lancaster County Agricultural

Provide fair and event facilities for lancaster county, nebraska

Recreation & Sports

Lancaster Community Safety

Enhance public safety and the quality of life in lancaster by engaging the community and advancing current crime prevention strategies.

Public Safety & Disaster

Lancaster Police Athletic League

To provide the youth from the lancaster, ohio and surrounding communities with an opportunity to stay out of trouble by participating in sports and other activities after school and during summer as opposed to roaming the streets and…

Youth Development

The Community Library Inc

The lancaster community library is a center for the cultural, intellectual, and recreational pursuits of the community. through its materials, programs, and services, the library promotes literacy, provides lifetime learning opportunities,…

Education

Lancaster Equity Inc

Lancaster equity coordinates efforts to advance communities where everyone has an opportunity to thrive, whether that be through neighborhood revitalization, living wage work, entrepreneurship, or sage and affordable housing.

Housing & Shelter

The Lancaster County Partners for Youth

Philanthropy

The Arc of Lancaster County

Empowering people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (i/dd) and their families to lead full, satisfying, independent lives of their choice.

Health

Assets Lancaster

Assets lancaster creates economic opportunity and cultivates entrepreneurial leadership to alleviate poverty and build vibrant and sustainable communities.

Community Improvement

Lancaster Housing Services Incorporated

Housing & Shelter

Lawrence County Association for

To advocate for and provide quality services to people with developmental disabilities and ensure their health, safety and welfare while promoting personal choice and growth.

Human Services

Lancaster Medical Society Foundatio

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Lancaster Childrens Home

The lancaster childrens home is committed to providing comprehensive treatment services to children of need in the most effective and least restrictive setting possible.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lancaster Country Day School and the most unlike its peers is Elizabethtown College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 7% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/67

the rest of the field

195/2,748

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

54/56

Grantees still filing

47/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$11,189,284Health$6,901,282Education$2,166,659Human Services$1,908,030Youth Development$844,152Recreation & Sports$362,654Religion$154,172

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Lancaster County Community FoundationPA84.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lancaster County Community Foundation · The Steinman Foundation · Central Pennsylvania Food Bank · Touchstone Foundation Supporting · Ferree Foundation · Fulton Family Foundation · Clark Associates Charitable Foundation · Pryor E & Arlene R Neuber Charitable Trust · Dart Foundation · Ppl Foundation · Willis and Elsie Shenk Foundation · Community Aid Inc

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: PLANT THE SEED OF LEARNING.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 812842680 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on PLANT THE SEED OF LEARNING, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to United Way of Lancaster County?

Find your warmest path to United Way of Lancaster County through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Lancaster County?

More from the funding graph

UNITED WAY OF LANCASTER COUNTY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to United Way of Lancaster County?

More from the funding graph